Hairpin container



Patented May 8, 1923.

SOLOMON H. GOLDBERG, 0F CHICAGO. ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE HUMP 'HAIRPINMANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

HAIRPIN' CONTAINER.

Application led .Tuly 15, 1918. Serial No. 244,829.

To all wiwm it may concern.'

Be it known that I, SOLOMON H. (JroLn- BERG, a citizen of the UnitedStates. residing in the city of Chicago, county of Cook, and State ofIllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in HairpinContainers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements 1n hairpin containers and has forits object to provide simple and economical means for holding aplurality of hairpin bundles of different sizes in proper alignment v1nthe box or other container but in such a way that they may be readilyinserted in or removed from the container.

In the drawings:

Fig. l is a top plan view of the box o r container with thehairpinbundles in-position but with the top of the box removed.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section through the box with the pins omitted.

Fig. 3 is a sectional detail taken on lines 3-3 of Fig. 1 looking in thedirection of b the arrows but showing the top in place.

Fig. 4 is a detail View of a portion of the spring gripping retainingstrip.

eferring to the drawings,- 1- designates the box having a bottom 2, sidewalls 3 and removable slip cover top 4. In the box is seated a retainingmember designated asa whole 5 and comprising base members 6 which may,if desired, be pasted tothe bottom of the box, and a centrally disposedvertical retaining strip 7. This strip may be formed by bendin the baseportions centrally upon themseves in the manner clearly shown in Fig. 3.The retaining strip ex- K ings.

tends diagonally across the box and is provided with apertured springgripping fingers 8,.the apertures being of succeedingly increasing sizeas shown clearly in the draw- The upper edges of the spring grippingfingers preferably approach each otherv so as to lit more or less aroundthe bundle of hairpins. The arrangement is such that when the bundle ofhairpins are placed in the box, the closed end of thepins will pref'-erably lie against the one `wall of the box and the bundle of pins litbetween the corresponding spring gripping fingers. The pins of eachbundle are held together by means of a band 9. The band 9, it will beseen, in the drawing, lies between the retaining strip and the wall ofthe box and serves to limit the movement of the pins awady from the wallof the box adjacent the hea s of the pins. It will also be seen that thebundles of hairpins of different sizes can be used. The construction notonly gives a neat and attractive arrangement of the pins ut insures ofthe hairpin bundles being at all times` in their properqplace in the boxso there is no liability of their being disarranged during theirshipping.

I claim as'my invention:

A hair pin container comprising a box portion and a double retainingWall provided with-a series of spaced slotted apertures therein formingsprin gripping fingers to hold hair Iin bundllres in position, saidretaining wal extending diagonally lacross the box portion whereby aplurality of bundles of hair. ins of different sizes or lengths may beheldp in ali nment.

. SOLOMON GOLDBERG.

